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Tachyoryctes
Sign in to saveTachyoryctes is a genus of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It contains the following species: Ankole African mole-rat (T. ankoliae) Mianzini African mole-rat (T. annectens) Aberdare Mountains African mole-rat (T. audax) Demon African mole-rat (T. daemon) Kenyan African mole-rat (T. ibeanus) Giant root-rat (T. macrocephalus) Navivasha African mole-rat (T. naivashae) King African mole-rat (T. rex) Rwanda African mole-rat (T. ruandae) Rudd's African mole-rat (T. ruddi) Embi African mole-rat (T. spalacinus) Northeast African mole-rat (T. splendens) Storey's African mole-rat (T. store
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderRodentia
- FamilySpalacidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 124
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Spalacidae
- Collections
- AMNH, USNM
- Recorded in
- Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, Democratic Rep. Of, Ethiopia
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- Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig (1835) Tachyoryctes splendens (cropped).png
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- Category:Tachyoryctes
- taxon name
- Tachyoryctes
- gestation period
- 48
- temporal range start
- Late Miocene
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Tachyoryctes is a genus of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It contains the following species: Ankole African mole-rat (T. ankoliae) Mianzini African mole-rat (T. annectens) Aberdare Mountains African mole-rat (T. audax) Demon African mole-rat (T. daemon) Kenyan African mole-rat (T. ibeanus) Giant root-rat (T. macrocephalus) Navivasha African mole-rat (T. naivashae) King African mole-rat (T. rex) Rwanda African mole-rat (T. ruandae) Rudd's African mole-rat (T. ruddi) Embi African mole-rat (T. spalacinus) Northeast African mole-rat (T. splendens) Storey's African mole-rat (T. storeyi)
Some authorities place all the species in this genus except T. macrocephalus in one species, the East African mole-rat, in which case T. splendens is used for the entire group. This taxonomy is followed by the IUCN Red List.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tachyoryctes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.